Charles Steward 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇨🇳

Excited to share my final PhD paper in The Journal of Physiology. Great team effort! We found that exercise + hot water immersion significantly improved blood pressure and vascular function in physically inactive middle-aged adults. Summary below (1/6) physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Charles J. Steward (@CovUni_PASES @UoNFacultyMHS) et al. found that post-exercise hot water immersion enhances #haemodynamic and #vascular benefits of exercise without further improving cardiorespiratory fitness, glucose, lipids or inflammation 🔎 🚴 📜 buff.ly/ecoNn56

A Coventry University study has found that those who enter a hot environment after exercise could experience long-lasting cardio-vascular benefits! Led by Dr Tom Cullen, Assistant Professor at our Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Science, and authored by former PhD student Charles Steward, the study asked participants to complete 30 minutes of aerobic exercise before being immersed in water at either 40°C or 34°C. The study, which was highlighted on Michael Mosley: Secrets of the Superagers on @Channel4, found that the group in the hotter water experienced additional benefits to their cardiovascular health, with lower blood pressure recorded and an improvement in artery function. Dr Cullen said: “This is an important study for us - it’s the culmination of five to 10 years of work." Charles Steward added: “It is great to see this study published in The Journal of Physiology. This work would not have been possible without a dedicated team of researchers and, most importantly, our amazing volunteers.” To learn more about this study, visit: pulse.ly/f4g7vhhdph @CovUniResearch

@PatrickRod_PhD @DrTomCullen @campbellmenz @CJAPugh @drdoug_7 @SophieRussell99 Thanks your kind words Dr. Rodrigues. I echo Tom's thoughts. It is possible - at least some of the mechanisms do exist. However, we were keen to keep the stimulus tolerable, bearing in mind that this population typically does not enjoy the discomfort associated with exercise.

@CSteward93 @DrTomCullen @campbellmenz @CJAPugh @drdoug_7 @SophieRussell99 Congratulations, Dr. Steward and team. Amazing work 👏. What about if you have done 60 min of HWI instead of 30 mim, or have used water at 42°C, or 5 sessions a week. Would you expect increases in cardiorespiratory fitness?

Excited to share my final PhD paper in The Journal of Physiology. Great team effort! We found that exercise + hot water immersion significantly improved blood pressure and vascular function in physically inactive middle-aged adults. Summary below (1/6) physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Finally, a big thank you to the team. @DrTomCullen @campbellmenz @CJAPugh @drdoug_7 @SophieRussell99 & Matt Hill

(6/6) Take Home Message: Post-exercise hot water immersion may offer a promising strategy to improve vascular health in populations that are either unable or unwilling to do enough exercise.

Out now in @ExpPhysiol from @campbellmenz @DrTomCullen: Vascular, inflammatory and perceptual responses to hot water immersion: Impacts of water depth and temperature in young healthy adults physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP…

Most recent paper from our group: Excellent work by led by @campbellmenz Passive heating in sport: Context specific benefits, detriments, and considerations cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/ap… @drdoug_7 @CJAPugh @Clarke_ND @CSteward93

@DavidBellini_ Congrats mate! Look forward to reading it.

Nice to have the first study of my PhD finished up!♨️ The effect of acute hot water immersion on cutaneous peripheral microvascular responses in males of White-European, Black-African and South-Asian descent tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We hope this e-book, including a poignant foreword and summarising editorial will be useful resource for the scientific community. The collated publications highlight the excellent work of a truly global field of researchers with over a dozen research groups represented.

Can sodium imaging be used to quantify muscle disruption after exercise? There appears to be a large increase in tissue sodium conc for some…

Fully funded PhD studentship available with me @CovUni_PASES Understanding the health and wellbeing benefits of ice baths Supervisory team includes @SLDavey32 @drdoug_7 @DrAdamBibbey Deadline is January 15th findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

Officially Dr Steward, PhD! Extremely grateful to my supervisors @DrTomCullen, @CJAPugh, @drdoug_7 and Mathew Hill. Thoroughly enjoyed every second with my research brother @campbellmenz. Looking forward to the next step at UoN under the guidance of @PGreenhaff 💪

Call for Papers…. Thermal physiology in health and disease: mechanisms and therapeutic applications physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14…

@katiecunning Charles.steward@nottingham.ac.uk

@CSteward93 Hey Charles, I'm a writer with the Guardian - would love to interview you for a piece I'm working on. Could you reply with your email address?

New study establishes novel experimental approaches for directly assessing effects of the circulating milieu on arterial function & implicates changes in circulating milieu as a mechanism of in vivo arterial #aging ow.ly/wRZZ50REpxQ @CUArtsSciences